ICANN have published their expenses for the 2010 financial year, which are expected to exceed budget by around $3m, or about 5.45%, to close to $58m. The increase in budget is due to a number of issues outlined in two postings on the ICANN blog, including additional security for the ICANN Nairobi meeting, travel...
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: DOMAINfest Global 2011, coming up in February, has landed GoDaddy Founder and CEO Bob Parsons for the keynote presentation. Also, MO.com published an extensive interview with DN Journal’s Ron Jackson today. Topics included the past, present and future of the domain business.
Domain industry pioneer Monte Cahn, the man who founded Moniker.com and stayed on to lead the popular registrar after it was sold to Oversee.net in 2007, is leaving the company effective December 31, 2010 when his current contract ends.
PPX International, the rapidly growing company headed by 2010 Domainer of the Year Gregg McNair, has been working overtime the past few months putting the finishing touches on a host of new services. The PPX initiatives are aimed at making them a leader in domain consulting, management and monetization.
The four-day Thanksgiving weekend gave most Americans a very short work week last week but the domain aftermarket continued full steam ahead, producing two of the year’s 30 biggest sales to date. .Coms took 12 of the 20 chart entries. ccTLDs swept the other 8 leaving the non .com gTLDs out in the cold.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo will have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend as they swept 10 of the first 11 chart entries, including the #1 domain. The .coms piled up 12 chart entries and the ccTLDs also had an excellent outing with 7 charted...
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Versign’s latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief reports that the total number of domain names registered worldwide crashed through the 200 million barrier in 3Q-2010. Plus, Frank Schilling is featured in a new podcast at OzDomainer.com and Francois Carrillo rolls out more new websites.
I just got back from an extended weekend trip to Mount Dora, Florida where Diana and I went to a huge outdoor antique and art fair. While the domain business was supposed to be left on the back burner, I couldn’t resist doing some domain name evangelizing by asking several dealers if they had...
We just got photos and highlights from an impromptu gathering that PPX hosted for domainers visiting Hong Kong November 14-16. The domain management and monetization company put the 3-day outing together to fill a void created when the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Hong Kong conference planned for those days was canceled.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and this will go down as a landmark week in industry history. Sex.com has officially changed hands for $13 million in the largest cash domain sale ever reported. We also learned about the largest sale we have ever seen for a domain with a...
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